Lightning
Bible Usage:
- lightning used 13 times.
- lightnings used 14 times.
- First Reference: 2 Samuel 22:15
- Last Reference: Luke 17:24
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
Frequently referred to by the sacred writers (Nahum 1:3-6). Thunder and lightning are spoken of as tokens of God's wrath (2 Samuel 22:15; Job 28:26; 37:4; Psalms 135:7; 144:6; Zechariah 9:14). They represent God's glorious and awful majesty (Revelation 4:5), or some judgment of God on the world (20:9).
Job 28:26; Job 37:3; Job 38:25; Job 38:35; Psalms 18:14; Psalms 77:18; Psalms 78:48; Psalms 97:4; Psalms 135:7; Psalms 144:6; Jeremiah 10:13; Jeremiah 51:16; Ezekiel 1:13-14; Daniel 10:6; Nahum 2:4; Zech 9:14; Zech 10:1; Matthew 24:27; Matthew 28:3; Luke 10:18; Revelation 4:5; Revelation 8:5; Revelation 11:19; Revelation 16:18
LIGHTNING, noun li'tening. [that is, lightening, the participle present of lighten.]
1. A sudden discharge of electricity from a cloud to the earth, or from the earth to a cloud, or from one cloud to another, that is, from a body positively charged to one negatively charged, producing a vivid flash of light, and usually a loud report, called thunder. Sometimes lightning is a mere instantaneous flash of light without thunder, as heat-lightning, lightning seen by reflection, the flash being beyond the limits of our horizon.
2. [from lighten, to diminish weight.] Abatement; alleviation; mitigation.
Bible Usage:
- lightning used 13 times.
- lightnings used 14 times.
- First Reference: 2 Samuel 22:15
- Last Reference: Luke 17:24
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: Yes
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: Yes
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance: